The ring deposits you all safely outside the base and seals up afterwards. Neo Metal Sonic doesn't chase after you, which is something of a mercy.
What's significantly less of a mercy is the sky - it's gone dark and ominously stormy, though the clouds spark not with lightning, but with that same green Chaos Energy you've been facing this entire fight. Worse still, there are now far, far too many robotic planes filling the sky - the Egg Fleet seems to go on endlessly, as far as you can see. Though perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the Neo Metal Sonic Fleet.
Sonic and friends arrive shortly, looking pretty banged up but otherwise still healthy enough to make it here, though they stare up at the sky with obvious concern.
"O...kay, this is definitely not what any of us were expecting."
"We will have to take the fight to them, it seems."
"Easier said than done, I'm afraid... I'm not sure how to pinpoint their leader's exact location to send you all with a ring..."
A jolt of green lightning flashes across the sky and Neo Metal Sonic's voice rings out.
"I expect to see you onboard my fleet in one week's time. That includes you, my loathsome copy."
It seems you don't really have much of a choice. For now, tend to your wounds and try to regroup; you've earned a break after today.
[He gives Raven's hand a squeeze before letting go; Dorothy is allowed to hold both their hands because Dorothy deserves the world, unlike these shady old men.]
I'll allow you to hold my hand again later, Raven~
You boys are so good to me. Let us get prepared, then.
[Just ignore the more than jazzed look on Dorothy's (slightly pink) face while they go back to the room, and the fact she's beaming brightly. This is paradise!!]
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We are truly ridiculous.
[He gives Raven's hand a squeeze before letting go; Dorothy is allowed to hold both their hands because Dorothy deserves the world, unlike these shady old men.]
I'll allow you to hold my hand again later, Raven~
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You boys are so good to me. Let us get prepared, then.
[Just ignore the more than jazzed look on Dorothy's (slightly pink) face while they go back to the room, and the fact she's beaming brightly. This is paradise!!]